{"id":1491,"date":"2018-03-07T15:20:18","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T15:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1491"},"modified":"2018-03-07T15:20:18","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T15:20:18","slug":"reported-cases-of-fgm-rise-sharply-in-uk-yet-still-no-court-convictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/reported-cases-of-fgm-rise-sharply-in-uk-yet-still-no-court-convictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Reported cases of FGM rise sharply in UK yet still no court convictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop-cap\"><span class=\"drop-cap__inner\">W<\/span><\/span>hen detective chief inspector Leanne Pook began\u00a0<a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"http:\/\/www.channel4.com\/programmes\/the-fgm-detectives\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">investigating allegations that a father in Bristol had allowed his six-year-old daughter to undergo female genital mutilation<\/a>, she hoped the case \u2013 the second to reach court \u2013 could go on to make legal history. It has been more than three decades since FGM was made illegal in the UK, but there is yet to be a successful prosecution. The first case, in 2015, resulted in an\u00a0<a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2015\/feb\/05\/cps-chief-alison-saunders-fgm-case-doctor-acquitted-30-minutees\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">NHS doctor being acquitted<\/a>\u00a0in less than 30 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>In the runup to the trial DCI Pook, the FGM police lead for Avon and Somerset, said she felt a huge sense of responsibility to prove the police were taking the hidden crime seriously. Yet, far from becoming a landmark victory,\u00a0<a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2018\/feb\/22\/bristol-father-found-not-guilty-female-genital-mutilation-trial-six-year-old-daughter\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">the Bristol case collapsed last month after a judge at Bristol Crown Court ordered the jury to return a verdict of not guilty<\/a>\u00a0and described aspects of the case as \u201cdeeply troubling\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2018\/mar\/07\/reported-cases-fgm-rise-sharply-uk-no-court-convictions\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2018\/mar\/07\/reported-cases-fgm-rise-sharply-uk-no-court-convictions<\/a><\/p>\n<aside class=\"element element-rich-link element-rich-link--tag element--thumbnail element-rich-link--upgraded\" data-component=\"rich-link-tag\" data-link-name=\"rich-link-tag\">\n<div class=\"rich-link tone-news--item rich-link--pillar-news\">\n<div class=\"rich-link__container\">\n<div class=\"rich-link__read-more\">\n<div class=\"rich-link__arrow\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When detective chief inspector Leanne Pook began\u00a0investigating allegations that a father in Bristol had allowed his six-year-old daughter to undergo female genital mutilation, she hoped the case \u2013 the second to reach court \u2013 could go on to make legal history. It has been more than three decades since FGM was made illegal in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[420],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fgm"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1492,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491\/revisions\/1492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}